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A subreddit to discuss the space company Blue Origin, which makes the New Glenn and New Shepard rockets

Earth, In all its beauty, Is just our starting place.

We are of Blue Origin, and here is where it begins.

Blue Origin is an aerospace company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos that has successfully launched reusable New Shepard suborbital launch vehicles fourteen times, carrying the New Shepard capsule into space.

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Launch Date: Mission: Result
29/04/2015 First Launch Success
23/11/2015 Recovery of both crew capsule and booster Success
22/01/2016 Reuse of the New Shepard booster Success
02/04/2016 Reuse of the New Shepard booster Success
19/06/2016 One Parachute Failure test Success
04/10/2016 In-Flight Escape Test Success
12/12/2017 Crew Capsule 2.0 Test Success
28/4/2018 Crew Capsule 2.0 Test Success
18/8/2018 Safe Escape Test Success
23/1/2019 NASA Sponsored Payloads Success
2/5/2019 38 Experiments Success
11/12/2019 Science experiments & Postcards Success
13/10/2020 Lunar Landing Technologies Success
14/01/2021 Astronaut Upgrades Success
20/07/2021 First Human Flight Success

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And it's down again

28 Comments
2024/12/01
20:17 UTC

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Blue Origin Internship Summer 2025 Timeline

Hi,

I submitted an application early September and interviewed early November. On workday my application still says under "In progress, under review". I was hoping someone could give me a timeline on how long the recruiting proccess will take this year and if its normal to wait this long to hear back.

Thanks!

2 Comments
2024/12/01
19:32 UTC

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Getting an internship as a PhD student

Hi all, does anyone know if Blue Origin tends to hire PhD students who do research work in optimization/control/reinforcement learning?

I applied for a full-time GNC engineer role at Blue a while ago when I just got my master's, but failed the 2nd round of interview with the technical manager. I am doing a PhD in electrical engineering now and want to get an internship in the summer.

10 Comments
2024/12/01
02:11 UTC

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Blue Origin Internship Question

Hey y’all,

So in the beginning of October I applied to a Blue Origin Internship, and a few days later the status read “Application Submitted, Under Review”. I read somewhere on here that usually any next steps is taken 2-3 weeks after that, but it’s been about a month since then and I haven’t received anything from them.

Does the process usually take a long time, or does this mean I’m in for a rejection?

Thanks for any help/insight!

13 Comments
2024/11/29
03:52 UTC

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100th Woman Astronaut Defies Haters After Viral Space Video Sparks Backlash

88 Comments
2024/11/27
16:08 UTC

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I’m curious about the demographic on this page.

Are you an employee, fan of blues work, or job seeker within blue?

View Poll

37 Comments
2024/11/27
09:59 UTC

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Landing Barge Jacklyn Departed Port Canaveral 0745 on 11/26/2024

Barge was moved out to sea with the assistance of a few tugs and the support vessel!

35 Comments
2024/11/27
01:57 UTC

235

New Glenn returned to raised position

27 Comments
2024/11/26
13:27 UTC

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Perhaps the lack of a certified third stage of the New Glenn contributed to its not being chosen, but Vulcan was another eligible supplier, it seems that NASA went for the cheaper option

39 Comments
2024/11/26
01:53 UTC

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Static fire updates?????

17 Comments
2024/11/25
23:39 UTC

0

I was wrong

Last November, when NG was first rolled out, I made a reply saying "At this rate first launch attempt will be around June 2024, second flight in December" which was rightfully downvoted harshly, because I WAS WRONG. There, I said it. I was wrong, I was not even close. BO is even more lethargic than I thought. Any year now, right?

11 Comments
2024/11/23
11:04 UTC

169

Elon/Bezos interaction on X.

58 Comments
2024/11/23
01:30 UTC

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When and where will NG's fairing, both parts, be removed and released?

Will an attempt be made to retrieve the fairing after it is removed/released for this first launch of NG? All the parts and systems, currently used, ought to be tested, I believe.

Will a helicopter (s) be used to bring the fairing pieces back to Jacklyn, the sea based landing system?

8 Comments
2024/11/22
23:57 UTC

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Why didn't blue show the payload of New Glenn's first flight?

We know it's carrying blue ring, but we have never been provided a single photo of it and blue has provided very little updates on it's development.

73 Comments
2024/11/22
23:01 UTC

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(New fan) What does BO’s production capabilities for New Glenn and BE-4 look like?

Hi everyone! I've been a long time rocket fan, but I haven't really paid much attention to Blue Origin until recently with the anticipation for NG's inaugural flight. So I don't really know much.

I was wondering what BO's production capabilities look like for this rocket. Do you guys think it is difficult to produce multiple boosters, engines, second stages quickly/cheaply? From my impression, it seems like the only hardware they have right now is the full stack seen in the recent pictures? (I saw the pics of the booster being rolled out a few weeks ago too). Are there one or more boosters in production right now, or is BO waiting to learn from this first flight before subsequent revisions?

I say this mainly as someone who follows SpaceX, their approach with Starship has been trying to make the materials and production as cheap and efficient as possible, so stainless steel, welding out in the open in tents, basically making a production line before they even know what is right and wrong (hence they have a lot of extra unflown hardware lying around as some of the ships and boosters got skipped in favor of newer revisions). From what it looks like, is New Glenn made with more traditional materials? Aluminum? Carbon fiber? It seems pretty in line with how Falcon 9 is built, just way larger.

From what I know BE-4 is a staged combustion methalox engine? Do you think they've been able to iron out the issues with the design and can now pump these out reliably? Just curious on your guys thoughts on the design choices and tradeoffs.

Also if you guys can tell me about the plans after New Glenn, that would be super cool too. I read in an article that the current plan is to have reusable first stage and expendable second stage, but then later have a reusable second stage too, right? Does BE-4 have good throttle capability that would allow for soft touchdowns and hovering? If you recall the reason why landing the Falcon 9 booster was so difficult was because it had such a high thrust to weight when it was coming back down landing, so it needed to do the hoverslam. If NG doesnt have to deal with that, I can definitely see the first landing being a success assuming they can feed the engines with good pressure on the way down and restart them properly!

(sorry for the long post, just really excited about another capable rocket coming online)

44 Comments
2024/11/22
19:27 UTC

111

What did he mean by hints of New Armstrong?

41 Comments
2024/11/22
03:40 UTC

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New Glenn leaves the integration facility heading for a vertical transition

46 Comments
2024/11/21
23:45 UTC

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new glenn on the rise (NSF spacecoast live cam)

7 Comments
2024/11/21
23:07 UTC

75

How was Bob Smith CEO for so fucking long?

I don't understand. Did Jeff just not check in for 6 years?

38 Comments
2024/11/21
08:20 UTC

105

SpaceX will transport JAXA's pressurized rover and Blue Origin will transport a lunar surface habitat to the surface of the Moon, for the Artemis program

83 Comments
2024/11/21
07:34 UTC

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Work as Northrop Grumman or Blue Origin?

Best for new grad?

29 Comments
2024/11/21
01:05 UTC

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